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Recommended service - hourly, according to the GWRUS. Let's work towards that service and towards ensuring all services are used.
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Ecclesbourne Valley Railway Hosts Tube Train Tests
« on: August 07, 2007, 10:55:27 AM »
A private Derbyshire rail company is being used as the test track for a new generation of London tube trains (link below.)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/derbyshire/6933785.stm

The Ecclesbourne Valley Railway at Wirksworth is one of the longest lines in private hands in the East Midlands.

London Underground is running the first of 40 engineers' locomotives to test a new control system which should allow trains to run faster and more often.

Managers at the railway said the test track generated income and would help develop passenger services.
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